Monday, 28 March 2016

This is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the
tax laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit
of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French citizens are being encouraged through the
tax system to subsidise an illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians
by the Israeli army. It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the
French government as it claims to be trying to resolve the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not be too surprised. After all, the United States and most
European countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli
army during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel after their
inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of
the sites of destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any
Palestinian refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find
no place to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known. Both because the media make no
effort to expose these abuses of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare
politician who speaks out, like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into
silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the
original article, which can be found here.
Nathalie Goulet, a Senator for the UDI [centrist] party
representing the Orne [a French department], announced on Friday that
she had received death threats on social networks after she expressed
astonishment regarding a 60% tax reduction available to French taxpayers who
make a gift to the Israeli army.
On March 10, the Senator had posed a written question to the secretary of
state [a junior minister] in charge of the budget, Christian Eckert, to draw
his attention to the existence of tax reductions when gifts are made to the
Israeli army. In her written question, Nathalie Goulet underlined that this
represented “a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign
army.”
Here is the full text of the written question no. 20545 of Mrs. Nahalie
Goulet:
“Mrs. Nathalie Goulet draws the attention of the secretary of state in the
Ministry of Finance in charge of the budget to the current regulation which
permits French citizens who make gifts to the Israeli army (Tsahal) to deduct
their gifts and give themselves a 60% tax reduction, within the limit of 20% of
their taxable income. This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for
the benefit of a foreign army.”
The minister has not yet responded to the question of the Senator, who is
also vice-president of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces commission
of the Senate. On the other hand, Nathalie Goulet declared Friday to Agence France-Presse
that she had received anonymous death threats on social networks.
Questioned Friday by Ouest-France [a prominent regional newspaper] during a
visit in the Orne, the Senator refused to comment on the subject, saying: “I
won’t talk about it.”

- See more at:
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

Nathalie
Goulet, a Senator for the UDI [centrist] party representing the Orne [a
French department], announced on Friday that she had received death
threats on social networks after she expressed astonishment regarding a
60% tax reduction available to French taxpayers who make a gift to the
Israeli army.
On March 10, the Senator had posed a written
question to the secretary of state [a junior minister] in charge of the
budget, Christian Eckert, to draw his attention to the existence of tax
reductions when gifts are made to the Israeli army. In her written
question, Nathalie Goulet underlined that this represented “a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
Here is the full text of the written question no. 20545 of Mrs. Nahalie Goulet:
“Mrs.
Nathalie Goulet draws the attention of the secretary of state in the
Ministry of Finance in charge of the budget to the current regulation
which permits French citizens who make gifts to the Israeli army
(Tsahal) to deduct their gifts and give themselves a 60% tax reduction,
within the limit of 20% of their taxable income. This represents a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
The
minister has not yet responded to the question of the Senator, who is
also vice-president of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces
commission of the Senate. On the other hand, Nathalie Goulet declared
Friday to Agence France-Presse that she had received anonymous death
threats on social networks.
Questioned Friday by Ouest-France [a
prominent regional newspaper] during a visit in the Orne, the Senator
refused to comment on the subject, saying: “I won’t talk about it.”

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

Nathalie
Goulet, a Senator for the UDI [centrist] party representing the Orne [a
French department], announced on Friday that she had received death
threats on social networks after she expressed astonishment regarding a
60% tax reduction available to French taxpayers who make a gift to the
Israeli army.
On March 10, the Senator had posed a written
question to the secretary of state [a junior minister] in charge of the
budget, Christian Eckert, to draw his attention to the existence of tax
reductions when gifts are made to the Israeli army. In her written
question, Nathalie Goulet underlined that this represented “a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
Here is the full text of the written question no. 20545 of Mrs. Nahalie Goulet:
“Mrs.
Nathalie Goulet draws the attention of the secretary of state in the
Ministry of Finance in charge of the budget to the current regulation
which permits French citizens who make gifts to the Israeli army
(Tsahal) to deduct their gifts and give themselves a 60% tax reduction,
within the limit of 20% of their taxable income. This represents a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
The
minister has not yet responded to the question of the Senator, who is
also vice-president of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces
commission of the Senate. On the other hand, Nathalie Goulet declared
Friday to Agence France-Presse that she had received anonymous death
threats on social networks.
Questioned Friday by Ouest-France [a
prominent regional newspaper] during a visit in the Orne, the Senator
refused to comment on the subject, saying: “I won’t talk about it.”

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

Nathalie
Goulet, a Senator for the UDI [centrist] party representing the Orne [a
French department], announced on Friday that she had received death
threats on social networks after she expressed astonishment regarding a
60% tax reduction available to French taxpayers who make a gift to the
Israeli army.
On March 10, the Senator had posed a written
question to the secretary of state [a junior minister] in charge of the
budget, Christian Eckert, to draw his attention to the existence of tax
reductions when gifts are made to the Israeli army. In her written
question, Nathalie Goulet underlined that this represented “a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
Here is the full text of the written question no. 20545 of Mrs. Nahalie Goulet:
“Mrs.
Nathalie Goulet draws the attention of the secretary of state in the
Ministry of Finance in charge of the budget to the current regulation
which permits French citizens who make gifts to the Israeli army
(Tsahal) to deduct their gifts and give themselves a 60% tax reduction,
within the limit of 20% of their taxable income. This represents a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
The
minister has not yet responded to the question of the Senator, who is
also vice-president of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces
commission of the Senate. On the other hand, Nathalie Goulet declared
Friday to Agence France-Presse that she had received anonymous death
threats on social networks.
Questioned Friday by Ouest-France [a
prominent regional newspaper] during a visit in the Orne, the Senator
refused to comment on the subject, saying: “I won’t talk about it.”

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

Nathalie
Goulet, a Senator for the UDI [centrist] party representing the Orne [a
French department], announced on Friday that she had received death
threats on social networks after she expressed astonishment regarding a
60% tax reduction available to French taxpayers who make a gift to the
Israeli army.
On March 10, the Senator had posed a written
question to the secretary of state [a junior minister] in charge of the
budget, Christian Eckert, to draw his attention to the existence of tax
reductions when gifts are made to the Israeli army. In her written
question, Nathalie Goulet underlined that this represented “a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
Here is the full text of the written question no. 20545 of Mrs. Nahalie Goulet:
“Mrs.
Nathalie Goulet draws the attention of the secretary of state in the
Ministry of Finance in charge of the budget to the current regulation
which permits French citizens who make gifts to the Israeli army
(Tsahal) to deduct their gifts and give themselves a 60% tax reduction,
within the limit of 20% of their taxable income. This represents a tax
benefit by the French taxpayer for the benefit of a foreign army.”
The
minister has not yet responded to the question of the Senator, who is
also vice-president of the foreign affairs, defense and armed forces
commission of the Senate. On the other hand, Nathalie Goulet declared
Friday to Agence France-Presse that she had received anonymous death
threats on social networks.
Questioned Friday by Ouest-France [a
prominent regional newspaper] during a visit in the Orne, the Senator
refused to comment on the subject, saying: “I won’t talk about it.”

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

France’s tax subsidy on ‘gifts’ to Israeli army

28 March 2016

This
is astounding. A senior French politician has revealed that the tax
laws of France entitle a citizen to make a charitable, tax-deductible
donation to the Israeli army. As the French politician Nathalie Goulet
observes: “This represents a tax benefit by the French taxpayer for the
benefit of a foreign army.”
Or put more bluntly still, French
citizens are being encouraged through the tax system to subsidise an
illegal, belligerent occupation of the Palestinians by the Israeli army.
It underscores the sheer hypocrisy of the French government as
it claims to be trying to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
through “peace-making” at the United Nations.
Maybe one should not
be too surprised. After all, the United States and most European
countries, including the UK and France, make donations to the Jewish
National Fund tax-deductible, even though one of the JNF’s primary
activities has been concealing war crimes committed by the Israeli army
during the 1948 and 1967 wars: by planting and maintaining forests over
more than 500 Palestinian communities that were destroyed by Israel
after their inhabitants had been forcibly expelled.
The thickly
planted pine forests not only provide year-round cover of the sites of
destruction, but in the state’s early years ensured that any Palestinian
refugee who managed to return to his or her village would find no place
to rebuild their home.
Why are these facts not more widely known.
Both because the media make no effort to expose these abuses
of taxpayers’ money, and because the rare politician who speaks out,
like Goulet, is quickly terrorised back into silence.
Below is an English translation, provided by John Whitbeck, of the original article, which can be found here.

- See more at: http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2016-03-28/frances-tax-subsidy-on-gifts-to-israeli-army/#sthash.hlddGEv4.dpuf

(The "debate" is based upon actual
quotes arranged mostly in chronological order)

Compiled
by Mike King

* A
skeptical reader might suspect that
the quotes below were cherry-picked out of context
and arranged for propaganda purposes. This is an understandable, though
mistaken suspicion. We therefore invite you, after
'the debate', to also read 'The British Mad Dog' and 'The Bad War' . Both works (available at Amazon or here as pdfs) will provide a full and truthful explanation
of Hitler, Churchill and World War II.

Prime Minister Churchill. We begin with you...

Churchill

We
cannot tell whether Hitler
will be the man who will once again let loose upon
the world another war in which civilization will irretrievably
succumb...
It is on this mystery of the future that history
will pronounce Hitler either a monster
or a hero.

Nov., 1935

Hitler

I
appeal to reason in international affairs. I want
to show that the idea of eternal enmity is wrong. We are not
hereditary
enemies.

Feb., 1936

Churchill

There
can never be friendship between the British
democracy and the Nazi Power. Which cheers its onward course by a
barbarous paganism,
which vaunts the spirit of aggression and conquest,
which derives strength and perverted pleasure from persecution, and
uses,
as we have seen, with pitiless brutality the threat
of murderous force.

Oct.,
1938

Hitler

At
no time and in no place have I ever acted contrary to British interests … I believe even today that there can only be real peace in Europe and throughout the world if
Germany and England come to an understanding.

Oct., 1939

Churchill

I
would say
to the House as I said to those who have joined
this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears
and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most
grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of
struggle
and of suffering.

May, 1940

Hitler

In
this hour I feel it to be my duty before
my own conscience to appeal once more to reason and common sense, in
Great
Britain as much as elsewhere. ... I can
see no reason why this war must go on.

July, 1940

Churchill

We
shall go on to the end. We shall fight on the seas, we shall
fight
in the air, we shall defend our island,
whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight
on the landing grounds, we shall fight in
the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall
never
surrender...

June, 1940

Hitler

Time
and time again I have offered friendship,
and if necessary closest cooperation, to England. But love cannot be
offered from one side only. It must be met
with reciprocation by the other side.

Germany is not pursuing any interests in the West.

Sep.,
1939

Churchill

You
ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one
word. It is victory. Victory at all costs. Victory in spite of all
terrors.
Victory, however long and hard the road
may be, for without victory there is no survival.

May, 1940

Hitler

All
of my peace
overtures have been rejected and war was
declared on us.... The German people has no hatred, no inimical feeling
toward the English or French people.

May, 1940

Churchill

There
is one thing
that will bring Hitler down, and that is an
absolutely devastating exterminating attack by
very
heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi
homeland.

July, 1941

Hitler

Again
and again I uttered these warnings against this specific
type of aerial warfare, and I did so for over three
and a half months. That these warnings failed to impress Mr. Churchill
does not surprise me in the least. For what does
this man care for the lives of others? What does he care for culture or
for
architecture?

May, 1941

Churchill

And
even if this Island or a large part
of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire
beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on
the struggle, until, in God's good time, the New
World (United States), with all its power and might, steps forth to the
rescue
and the liberation of the old.

June,
1940

Hitler

(Roosevelt)
is resolved to take over, as safely and securely
as possible, the British Empire in the moment of
its downfall. Since England is no longer in the position to pay cash for
all the American deliveries.

December,
1941

Churchill

I
have it in me to be a successful soldier. I can visualize great movements and combinations.

World War I

Hitler

Churchillis the most bloodthirsty of amateurstrategists
that history has ever known.

1941

Churchill

We
never thought of peace, not even in that year when
we were completely isolated and could have made peace without serious
detriment
to the British Empire. Why should we think of it
now, when victory approaches for the three of us?

1944

Hitler

It
is untrue that I or anyone else in Germany wanted war in 1939. ...
I have made too many offers for the limitation and
control of armaments, which posterity will not be cowardly
enough
always to disregard, for responsibility for the
outbreak of this war to be placed on me. Nor have I ever wished
that, after the appalling First World War, there
would ever be a second against either England or America.

1945

Churchill

I do not want to receive any suggestions how we can destroy militarily important targets in
Dresden’s hinterland, I want to get suggestions how we can fry 600,000 refugees from Breslau in Dresden.

1945

Hitler

Centuries
will go by, but from the ruins of our towns and
monuments the hatred of those ultimately responsible will always grow
anew
against the people whom we have to thank for all
this: international Jewry and its henchmen (Churchill, FDR).

1945

Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she
should always be attended by abodyguard oflies.

Hitler

The
gift Mr. Churchill possesses is the gift to lie
with a pious expression on his face and to distort the truth until
finally
glorious victories are made out of the most
terrible defeats.

1941

Churchill

I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as
I propose to write that history.

Hitler

...despite
all setbacks, (this war) will one day go down in
history as the most glorious and heroic manifestation of the struggle
for
existence of a nation.